When it comes to painting your car, prep-work is the key between a good and shithouse job. Spend lots of time on prepwork and it should come out pretty good.

Also, id recommend going a solid colour if its your first sprayjob - red, white, yellow, orange etc. Benifits of solids is even if you FARK up spraying it [ie, few runs, spray it dry etc] you have ALOT of scope for repairing it. Ie respraying individual panels wont lead to a difference in shade, can cut-and-buff your way to a good finish etc

Thanks for the advice.
I do plan on painting it all one color. Ill most likely be painting it white.
I will do my best, but since its my first paint job on a car, it will probably turn out like shit. lol

And some parts in the engine bay, just to clear things out to pull the motor.
Getting Dry ice soon to put in the car and break the sound deadening out.
Started sanding a little, but waiting to get an air sander.

Was the interior unsalvageable? I always prefer the period correct look but that's me.

Door panels and stuff were pretty bad. Nothing i could really do with them. There was electrical tape covering all of the rips and cracks. I would have kept it if it were clean.
A cage is going in this anyways.

Oh, and by nasty 1970's interior i meant just old and shitty. lol
If i could find interior for this i would buy it!

Thats what im doin!
When my brother gets over here with his welder, im gonna be fixing the rust spots and shaving the side markers.
And im hopefully going to get a sander today to use with my compressor.
Should have this thing sanded in no time.

im pretty sure there is a 74 corona floating around at the damascus u pull it. i ripped the vin tag off and got the original floor mats out of it, could be worth a look. let me know if you want the mats, they r the old baby blue ones

It's a 74 celica if it is the one I am thinking about.

try getting some traction bars for the stock rearend. I dont know how weak it is, but ae86 isnt any better strength wise im betting. They are quite weak.